Ambivalent Activism edited collection is out
I’m pleased to have a chapter on Rosa Luxemburg and prefigurative politics in this exciting new volume about Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change. Have a look at the book here.
Delighted my paper on Rosa Luxemburg and Utopia is now out in the European Journal of Social Theory
The paper is titled Fail Better: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Learning from Failure. It‘s available open access; you can read it here.
Fail Worse Symposium
The paper I presented is entitled Fail Better: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Learning from Failure. It explores how Rosa Luxemburg’s practice of learning from failure can enrich engagements with failure among scholars of utopia.
Roundtable on ‘Rethinking Hope and Imagination’
On 20 February, I presented my ideas on the political potential of disappointed hope at the Horizon Institute roundtable on ‘Rethinking hope and imagination’.
My paper on Disappointment’s Magic published in Millennium
The paper is titled Disappointment’s Magic: Negative Emotions, Transitional Justice and Resistance. It’s available open access; you can read it here.